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New paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research:

New paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. How do tundra lakes store and process dissolved organic matter and how does this vary seasonally? As Arctic climate warming continues, changes to how these lakes process carbon will be critical to continue to monitor.
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Huge congratulations to Aandishah Samara who succe

Huge congratulations to Aandishah Samara who successfully defended her M.S. thesis today, entitled “Understanding spatial changes in vertical atmospheric structure and sea ice in the Pacific Arctic from 1979 to 2020 using NARR reanalysis data”. Aandishah was co-advised by both Abby Frazier and Karen Frey.
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Aandishah will now graduate from the M.S. in GIScience program here at Clark and will enter the Ph.D. program in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University this coming Fall. Congratulations, Aandishah!
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Congratulations to Clare Gaffey, who just successf

Congratulations to Clare Gaffey, who just successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation proposal “Understanding phytoplankton phenology in the Pacific Arctic region using chlorophyll pigment proportions and ocean color remote sensing”. Upon completion of this milestone, Clare has now officially advanced as a Ph.D. candidate in the program.
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Clare has also been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant that in part will fund fieldwork for her to the North Pole this coming September/October. Huge congratulations to you, Clare!
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Huge congratulations to Emily Heltzel (Earth Syste

Huge congratulations to Emily Heltzel (Earth System Science ‘22) who successfully defended her senior honors thesis “A Spatiotemporal Comparison of Suspended Particulate Matter and Chlorophyll Concentrations Across the Pacific Arctic Distributed Biological Observatory Using In Situ Data”. She has tirelessly worked in the lab all year and has earned High Honors for her stellar research efforts! Congratulations, Emily!
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So thrilled to have Prof. Laurence Smith (Brown Un

So thrilled to have Prof. Laurence Smith (Brown University) speak in my Emerging Issues in Climate Change Science graduate seminar today, focused on his new Rivers of Power book. We all learned so much about global rivers and how they have shaped human history, it’s a fascinating story!
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Special thanks to @clarknec for support as well.
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New paper in the journal PLOS ONE: How the Bering

New paper in the journal PLOS ONE: How the Bering Sea Cold Pool (a pool of cold bottom water that forms due to sea ice growth and brine rejection) varies over space and time, and how this variability impacts marine biological production throughout the region.
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Huge congratulations to Ph.D. student Clare Gaffey

Huge congratulations to Ph.D. student Clare Gaffey (pictured center) for winning the prestigious US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) scholarship to support her dissertation research at Clark University, which is focused upon shifting phytoplankton phenology due to climate warming and sea ice decline. Full story at https://trajectorymagazine.com/clare-gaffey-2021-usgif-scholarship-winner/.
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NOAA's 16th annual 2021 #ArcticReportCard was rele

NOAA's 16th annual 2021 #ArcticReportCard was released today. Climate change is transforming the Arctic into a ‘dramatically different state.’

Read more at: https://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-card

Getting ready to distribute some Polar Science Res

Getting ready to distribute some Polar Science Research Lab swag…
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And getting to the end of each 24-hour straight ru

And getting to the end of each 24-hour straight run of science feels like…
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Have you wondered about a typical daily schedule o

Have you wondered about a typical daily schedule of science stations onboard a research vessel? Times on the white board (all the way to the left) give us a heads up for an ETA on station. Many days/nights leave little downtime, particularly since it can take three hours or more of sampling/processing for each station before getting to the next station (where we do it all over again!).
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A warm welcome to Emily Heltzel who has joined the

A warm welcome to Emily Heltzel who has joined the Polar Science Research Lab starting this semester! Emily will be working on her senior honors thesis research in the lab and we are so happy to have her join us!
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Hi! My name is Emily Heltzel and I am a senior majoring in Earth System Science. Next year, I will be doing the accelerated master's program in GIS. I have always been fascinated by the Arctic whether it's about declining sea ice or thawing permafrost. I am excited to apply remote sensing and other GIS tools to this Arctic research. In my free time, I love to be outdoors whether it be hiking, kayaking, or skiing. I am looking forward to working with the team!
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Fieldwork in the fog. Anna Zhu, Sophie Spiliotopou

Fieldwork in the fog. Anna Zhu, Sophie Spiliotopoulos, Clare Gaffey, Karen Frey.

The UMCES team takes the mud samples from the Van

The UMCES team takes the mud samples from the Van Veen grabs, gently washing away the mud away using sieve boxes. What is left behind are the benthic animals that will be enumerated and studied back at UMCES.
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The Van Veen grab goes over the side of the ship s

The Van Veen grab goes over the side of the ship several times at each science station, bringing up a large scoop of mud and animals from the seafloor each time. Numerous scientific analyses are then performed back onboard and at home laboratories at UMCES for each of these samples.
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University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sc

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science graduate students Andrea Pfaff and Christina Goethel put the Van Veen grab over the side of the Sir Wilfrid Laurier on the research cruise, which will head to the seafloor to pick up a large sample of mud and benthic animals to bring to the surface for subsequent analyses.
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I measure light transmittance through the ocean wa

I measure light transmittance through the ocean water column to give insight into photosynthesis, upper ocean heating, and the breakdown of organic material. Light transmittance has recently increased greatly in these Arctic waters owing to climate warming and sea ice decline.
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Measuring the light transmittance in the ocean wat

Measuring the light transmittance in the ocean water column gives insight into photosynthesis, ocean heating, and the breakdown of organic material. Light transmittance has recently increased greatly in these Arctic waters owing to climate warming and sea ice decline.
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